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Word: drums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jones saw the handwriting on the wall, and the words spelled nuclear war. So choosing to march to a different drum beat, Jones' disciples followed him into the jungle. Their humanistic dream: to build a better world. But, as it turned out, the handwriting was a forgery, the drummer was mad, the humanism bankrupt and the dream a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 25, 1978 | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...conventions . . . In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in. It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers . . . As a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy and noisy, was Babbitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: George Babbitt, Delegate | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Senior John Heller topped off the Crimson victory with a 15-7, 15-2, 15-9 win over Bob Drum at the ninth spot. In an exhibition match at the number ten position, Harvard racquetman Joe Somers out-hit Third Classman John Stratis...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Outgun Army, 9-0 | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...John Heller (H) def. Bob Drum...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Racquetmen Outgun Army, 9-0 | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

...member of the church, the ceremony was a gesture which I accepted from the people because it was their way to support me in coming back to school here. All through the night people sat around the fire in a hogan singing, praying and chanting with the drums. Old people sat up all night long praying and singing so that I could come back and help them. There were times when no music was played and each person prayed silently to himself. Other times the Road Man (medicine man) passed the prayer stick to some one who would sing...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

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